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“Alternative facts” apparently served Trump well during his campaign.
The hiccups in Western banks have served to disrupt the availability of trade credits, and, if amplified, could destabilize local banks.
The children of Chernobyl are all grown up; their interests, and those of their own children, are best served not by continually evoking the nightmare of radiation, but by giving them the tools and authority they need to rebuild their own communities.
A Better Way to Reduce Nuclear RisksIn 1977, when I served in President Jimmy Carter's State Department, I was sent to India to dissuade that country's leaders from developing a nuclear bomb.
The son of a renowned historian who served as the personal secretary of Zeev Jabotinski, the founder of the Zionist right, Netanyahu absorbed from childhood his father’s interpretation of Jewish history as a series of tragedies.
Flash floods in recent years in two Indian frontier states – Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh – served as an ugly reminder of China’s lack of information-sharing on its upstream projects.
Even Britain, an enduring opponent of EU institutions for financial regulation, may decide that its own interests as Europe’s financial hub would be better served by reform.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
As Constantinople, it was the capital of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and after its capture and renaming by Mehmed II in 1453, it served as the capital of the Ottoman Empire for nearly another 500 years.
Their clothes and bedcovers were made of cotton, not wool, and an open hole served as the cell’s lavatory.
The presidency of Mohammad Khatami, an avowed reformer, who served eight years, beginning in 1997, convinced the Supreme Leader that his authority would be assured only if the presidency was held by a subservient fundamentalist such as the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
That declaration served the larger goal of establishing a stable, albeit uneven, triangular relationship among the US, Japan, and China.
China’s interests, for example, would be best served not by playing Russia against the US, but by choosing the party of order over the party of disorder.
As a result, investors are worried that China could slip into the excess-leverage growth model that has served many developed economies so poorly.
Indeed, less than a month later, Michael Morton, who had served nearly 25 years of a life sentence for the murder of his wife, was released from a Texas prison.
I was ICANN’s founding chairman, and we more or less followed the rules of trademarks, with an overlay of “first come, first served.”
In fact, we were building an orderly market, setting policies for how much registries could charge, fostering competition among registrars, and making sure that we served the public interest.
All of this has served to convince the US that its China engagement policy has utterly failed.
Turkey served as a member of the United Nations Security Council in 2009-2010, and is now seeking another term in 2015-2016.
In the 1990s, Alfa Group’s Pyotr Aven authorized Putin’s controversial commercial deals in St. Petersburg when he served as Minister for External Economic Affairs, and Alfa Group has employed both the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s own eldest daughter.
While no comparison is perfect, the most apt comparison is with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian media mogul who has served three terms as his country’s prime minister.
Berlusconi’s greatest successes – especially during his 2001-2006 and 2008-2011 terms (he also served in 1994-1995) – lay in the manipulation of media and public opinion.
Hollande is also the third president to have served only one term.
Since Hollande dropped out of the running, Macron, his centrist former economy minister, has been urged to run in the Socialist primary, now that he can do so without betraying the president under whom he served.
Such an approach served the world well during the Cold War; it could do the same now.
Moreover, ordinary Russians are becoming allergic to liberal democracy, because liberal technocrats have consistently served as window dressing for an illiberal Kremlin regime.
China believed that it could easily manage the same kind of “executive-led” government that had served Hong Kong well for 150 years under the British.
In the US, that meant that virtually all presidents had either served in Congress or as state governors, with the only modern exception being Dwight Eisenhower, whose background as an Army general stood in for political experience.
But even a figure like British Prime Minister John Major, who was fast-tracked to the top, served as a junior social services minister, foreign secretary, and chancellor of the exchequer before taking over the premiership.
Blair had served in Parliament, and performed smoothly as the Labour Party’s home affairs spokesman.
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